Jessica Murphy Moo is the editor of Portland magazine, the publication of the University of Portland. Previously, she was an instructor of nonfiction writing for the University of Washington’s professional and continuing education program and has held a range of editorial positions, including communications editor at Seattle Opera, staff editor at The Atlantic, and fiction editor at Memorious, an online literary magazine. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Image, and Memorious. Her nonfiction has appeared in Portland, Poets & Writers Magazine, ParentMap, Portland Monthly, and theatlantic.com, among other publications. Murphy Moo is also a librettist. She wrote the words for two operas—An American Dream and Earth to Kenzie—which have been produced at Seattle Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, among other companies.